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THE 
Saturday. November 13.1SS6. 
The strike at. the Chicago packeries is still 
in force, though there arc strong expectations 
of speedy settlement by arbitration. The 
packers will not yield the eight-hour demand, 
although the men are willing to make a pro¬ 
portionate reduction in wages aud to work 
over-time at the daily rate to make up the de¬ 
ficiency—it’s the eight-hour principle they con¬ 
tend for. certain that they ran get the 10 
hours’ pay soon. Agents of the packers have 
been hiring men in Bostou, New York. Phila¬ 
delphia and other Eastern cities to take the 
places of the strikers, and hundreds have been 
shipped West. Some of them deserted at Chi¬ 
cago owing to the persuasions of the strikers; 
but most of them are at work. Two regiments 
of State infantry and one of cavalry together 
with several hundred Pinkerton detectives 
guard the packeries and the “scab” workmen. 
No heavy rioting, but many deeds of violence 
and outrage. Whenever crowds of strikers 
could attack the Pinkertons or non-union 
workmen, they have invariably pounded them 
unmei cifully. Business very sluggish as the 
new bands are a “poor lot." Many of the old 
hands are nearly starving, as they lmd saved 
nothing and the stores refuse credit. Much 
suffering to the men; much injury to the 
packers; much lost to the meat producers and 
consumers, especially the former. 
The evidence in that St. Louis Adams Ex¬ 
press robbery case so far as made public goes 
to prove thaFthe messenger, David C. Fother- 
ingham, was an accessory, or at least, a willing 
victim in the affair.Surveyor Beattie. 
of this port, who was shot by a discharged 
Custom-house employ^ last work, is out of 
danger. The would-be assassin is held for trial. 
.The feat of jumping from the Sus¬ 
pension Bridge into the Niagara River, a drop 
of 195 feet, was successfully performed Sun¬ 
day by Larry Donovan, who recently jumped 
from the Brooklyn Bridge. Broke some ribs 
and was nearly swept into the whirlpool by 
the fierce undertow.At Lacrosse, Wis., 
the Law’ and Order League have compelled the 
authorities to enforce in their entirety the 
Sunday laws of the State, (treat inconven¬ 
ience to the citizens followed as a matter of 
course ..All the Mormons in Idaho, 
single-wived or many-wived,are disfranchised. 
Nearly all the inhabitants of Southern Idaho 
are Mormons... 
. President Cleveland visited Boston and 
Harvard Monday, for the first time, to be 
present at the grand celebration of the 250th 
anniversary of the foundation of the TJniver. 
sity. He regretted that he wasn’t a graduate 
of any college, but found consolation in the 
fact that only 12 of his 21 predecessors had 
a collegiate or university education. He, very 
properly, declined to receive an honorary de¬ 
gree.... 
.The students of Packer Institute, 
Brooklyn, one of the largest female seminaries 
in the country, pledge themselves not to use 
the feathers of wild lords for decoration, and 
to discourage such use in others.At 
Gettysburg a Confederate monument to the 
memory of the second Maryland infantry has 
been erected. The first Confederate.. 
Saturday Theodore Roosevelt sailed from 
New York for Europe, where he will get 
married. 
_Woman suffrage, passed last week in the 
Vermont House by a vote of 132 to 83, has 
been defeated in the Senate IS to 10. 
Lord Lansdowne, the Governor-General of 
Canada has returned from England, and it is 
expected that the new elections will soon be 
ordered ..... Geysers in the Yellowstone 
Park are in a disturbed state, the earth in the 
vicinity quakes and an eruption is expected,.. 
The Central Labor Union in New York City 
is booming a national political party for 1888, 
with George as the Presidential candidate. 
The Knights of Labor element, however, docs 
not appear to be harmonious in its considera¬ 
tion of the scheme.Prof. Foster, an 
Iowa Wiggins, predicts a great meteorologi¬ 
cal disturbance from December 4 to 17, dur¬ 
ing which periods (here will be blizzards and 
great electrical commotion. The Eastern 
States arc warned that, t heir dose will cornea- 
long about Dec. {)....President Cleveland has 
given public notice that until Congress meets 
he can see no visitors except upon actual pub- 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. 
lie business of importance, not connected 
with office-seeking.The long-standing 
factory troubles at Augusta, Ga., by which 
over 3,009 bands were idle, have been settled.. 
.The Supreme Court of Mississippi has 
decided that the prohibition or local option 
law recently passed is constitutional. 
_The Board of Missions of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, which closed its session 
in New York Saturday, appropriated $569,447 
for foreign, and the home missions will prob¬ 
ably reach 811,000,900.It is said that 
Colonel John Moore, IT. S. A., now at San 
Francisco, will be tendered the Surgeon 
General-ship of the army... 
_A syndicate of window glass manufac¬ 
turers was formed at Pittsburg Pa., Tuesday, 
“to regulate prices aud control production”.. 
The Western Nail Associations and the Flint 
Glass Veal Associations have been separately 
in session at Cincinnati “to regulate prices”.. 
In the famous or notorious case of the Gov¬ 
ernment against the Bel) Telephone Company, 
in the United States Circuit Court at Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio, Judges Sage and Jackson, last. 
Thursday, in a voluminous decision, dismissed 
the case for want of jurisdiction, without pre¬ 
judice to instituting a suit elsewhere. It was 
decided that, the parent company had no gen¬ 
eral agent, in Ohio, and that service had been 
made only on local agents. As to the claim 
of the Government that the dealings in a pa¬ 
tent made the company a domestic in the 
entire territory of the United States co-exist- 
tent with the patent, the court held that it 
could not be sustaiued. The graut to a pat¬ 
entee is the right to exclude others from mak 
ing or selling his patent. His right to sell is 
only the common law right, aud is not a fran¬ 
chise from the Government, The headquar¬ 
ters of the parent company are in Boston, and 
the suit should have been brought in Massa¬ 
chusetts. The case all along has been of such 
a dubious nature that it is hardly likely it will 
be renewed by the Government elsewhere.... 
.. The Supreme Court, at Washington, has 
granted the motiou made last week to advance 
and hear together the six telephone cases now 
On the docket, and ordered that they be set 
for argument as oue case January 24 at the 
head of the calendar. 
.A filibustering expedition into Mexi¬ 
co, with Editor Cutting as one of the leaders, 
is being organized in the Southwest. It is 
proposed to make an independent Republic of 
the three Northern States of Mexico. Many 
capitalists, native and foreign, haring large 
land and mining interests in those States, 
are reported to be backing the movement. 
....The conditions for admitting the terri¬ 
tories of Saskatchewan, Assiniboia and Al¬ 
berta as a new province into the Dominion 
have been practically settled, aud it will soon 
be admitted.Wisconsin voted to amend 
its constitution so as to give women the bal¬ 
lot in elections for school officers, except in 
cities where the school boards are appointed 
by the Aldermen.The proposal to amend 
the Constitution of New York State has been 
carried.... 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, November 13,1886. 
In Bulgaria, the Great Sobranje, last Tues¬ 
day, elected Prince Waldemar, third son of 
King Christian, of Denmark, to succeed Prince 
Alexander of Battenberg, Christian's eldest 
sou and heir is married to a daughter of the 
King of Sweden; the second son is King of 
Greece, the third is Waldemar. His oldest 
daughter is the wife of the Prince of Wales, 
and will Vie Empress-Queen of the British 
Empire.; his second daughter is Empress of 
Russia, and his third, Duchess of Cumberland, 
wife of Prince Ernest August, cousin of Queen 
Victoria and claimant for the throne of Sax¬ 
ony. His brother, the King of Greece, would 
resign, if Waldemar became Prince of Bul¬ 
garia. and, moreover, the Czur is Strongly op¬ 
posed to bis election; consequently his father 
says he must not accept the position on any 
account. Prince Nicholas of Mingrelia is Rus¬ 
sia’s only candidate, but Austria-Hungary is 
opposed to him.—Foreign uews next week is 
likely to be interesting and will be lull. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 13, 1886. 
The Stock Yards Company of St. Paul 
Miun., has purchased ground on Staten Island 
N. Y.,with 1,100 feet water front, for termi¬ 
nal facilities for the exportation of cattle. It 
has made arrangements for securing great fa¬ 
cilities for slaughtering and caring for large 
numbers of American cattle at Barrow, a new 
port 45 north of Liverpool, England. 
Very large quantities of apples are being 
shipped from Hullfax to New York und 
England. The British Queen took 7,000 
barrels for London the other day. One INova 
Scotia dealer is handling 30,000 barrels, most¬ 
ly for New York markets.It is the gen¬ 
eral opinion at Havaua that ..the total produc¬ 
tion of sugar in the season 1880-87 will amount 
to over 80,0000 tons and exceed the largest crop 
hitherto raised on the island.In a fight 
Thursday between fence-cutters and State 
Rangers near Brownswood, Texas, two of the 
former were killed after cutting mile of 
barbed wire fence. 
....Boston exported last week, by steamer, 
396 live cattle and 2,376 quarters of beef. 
American meat is very cheap iu England—8 1 * 
cents pter pound for prime.Sheep feeding is 
being prepared l'or most extensively in Nebras¬ 
ka, and plenty of fat sheep, and good ones, 
may be expected from that State next Spring 
.Oregon pays two cents for every 
squirrel killed, and one man was recently 
paid for 125,000 squirrel tails which he had 
collected. 
.The Farmers’ National A lmnee met in 
convention, Thursday, in Chicago. 
J. C. Greenough, the lately deposed President, 
of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
has been elected Principal of the Westfield 
Normal School. He used to be Principal of 
the Bhode Island Normal School. 
.The Treasury Department has derided 
that poppy oil is free of duty, mid that linseed 
oil is dutiable at the rate of 25 cents per gal¬ 
lon.The culture of tobacco in Germany 
which has declined since 1881, is now progress¬ 
ing, 1,986,597 acres having been planted this 
year against 1,052,859 acres last year. In 
the last census year the United States had 
only 638,841 acres under tobacco; but the 
yield per acre here is much heavier than in 
Germany. In 1879 the above acreage yielded 
472,96 1 ,158 pounds.The Commissioner 
of Agriculture has been notified by chemist 
Wiley, from Fort Scott. Kaus., that by the 
diffusion process lie has secured an average of 
120 pounds of sugar per ton from S3 tons of 
Louisiana cane. It is claimed that the old 
process would have yielded only 80 pounds to 
the ton. This is regarded by the authorities 
at the Agricultural Department as the fulfill¬ 
ment of the promises of important results 
given by the first incomplete experiments in 
the diffusion process as applied to sugar cane. 
The process was developed in Europe for ap¬ 
plication in the manufacture of beet sugar, 
aud has been several times tided in this coun¬ 
try upon the sugar cane, but hitherto without 
success, owing to improper machinery, and the 
necessity of considerable modifications to meet 
the difference in the material to be worked... 
_Fish Commissioner Baird is distrib¬ 
uting carp from the Government ponds to ap¬ 
plicants in all parts of the country. Individ¬ 
ual applicants get 20 fish—52.000 would be re¬ 
quire*! to fill private orders for Ill..la.,Wis. and 
Jnd., aud the State Commissioners of those 
States ask for 38.000 more—a hint at the num¬ 
ber required for the whole country. 
The census of the island of Cuba shows 1,200 
sugar plantations. 5.900 tobacco plantations, 
160 coffee plantations, 25 coeoa plantations, 
5.000 grazing farms, 20.000 small farms, 90,- 
000 warehouses, factories, etc. 
... .United States Senator Plumb, referring to 
the reports that. New York and Colorado syn¬ 
dicates had been formed for the purpose of 
purchasing the Cherokee Strip, says the Chcr- 
okees have uot the original right to make such 
sale, that the Govern man t has an option to 
purchase, which it will not Waive to permit 
purchase by any private parties, and that no 
sale will be permitted by Congress except to the 
Government, and that for the only and sole 
purpose of resales to actual settlers in 160- 
acre tracts_Paris has just been taking its 
annual meat census and finds that she is eat¬ 
ing more horseflesh und less pork than ever. 
Donkey and mule meat, are also growing iu 
favor with the Parisians. 
... State Inspector Lowe, of N. J.. has or¬ 
dered three very sick cattle to be killed at 
Verona, Essex Co., N. J., as affected with 
contagious pleuro-pneumouia, and a number 
of exposed animals to be quarantined. 
Much alarm among local farmers . 
.... .State Veterinarian Case well mid Acting 
Health Commissioner Garroth have decided 
to cooperate in a house-to-house inspection of 
cattle at Chicago. A number of cows in the 
stables of wealthy citizens are reported to he 
“exposed to disease.” It seems nothing in the 
way of stamping out, the disease can he done 
till Congress and the Illinois State Legislature 
meet to pass suitable laws and make adequate 
appropriations; tnuanwhile some of the cattle 
dealers persistently deny that the disease is 
contagiouspleuro-pneumonia.. .Dr. Seabright, 
of the Indiana State Board of Health, reports 
that a month ago 190 calves were received at 
Frankfort from Ohio and sold to farmers. 
They soon showed signs of pleuro-pneumonia. 
One man—Baker—killed and buried 80 he had 
bought, but several of his own cattle had 
taken the disease, showing its contagious na¬ 
ture. It is reported that, more than 1,900 
cattle are affected with the plague in Jasper 
and Clinton Comities, Indiana. 
... A telegram from Parsons, Southern Kan¬ 
sas, says reports come from.all directionsjthat 
cattle are dying in great numbers from dry 
murrain, owing to short pastures and semi¬ 
starvation first, and then gorging whun turned 
into the corn-stalks .Black-leg is 
proving disastrous about Sliolbyville, Ill. 
.It is reported from Minneapolis, Minn., 
that syndicate of Canadian lumbermen, with 
partners in that State, have acquired the title 
to about 500,090.9900 feet of pine timber in 
North western Minnesota, and nee arranging to 
gobble up the rest of the vast timber belt on 
the northern slope—an area including about 
one-half of the entire State. It, is charged 
that the clauses in the Sundry Civil Bill pro¬ 
viding for a commission to treat with the 
Indians now occupying these lands for their 
removal to White Earth Agency was secured 
directly in the interest of this Canadian syn¬ 
dicate. Should the proposed treaties he con¬ 
firmed, it is alleged that 819,990.900 worth of 
Indian pine will certainly go into the hands 
of a foreign syndicate aud 815.000,000 worth 
of lumber that Minnesota and Dakota will 
shortly need, will be owned by the same pool. 
. .The stockmen of Upper Monanta have 
driven 75,000 cattle on thePiegan Reservation 
to range during the coining Winter. They 
claim they had to do this, ns feed is scarce. 
The authority of the Indian agent aud the 
Indian Bureau was obtained- The Ohio 
Live Stock Commissioners report that in the 
last six years 890,566 hogs died of disease in 
the State, worth $4,139,285. About 10 per 
cent, of the “crop” die each year. The pres¬ 
ent appropriation for the Commission is only 
$2,009; the Board considers $100,900 would not 
be exorbitant next, year. At its meeting the 
other day Dr. J. S. Butler, of Pjqua was ap¬ 
pointed State Veterinarian, and the following 
gentlemen consulting veterinarians at the 
points named: J. B. Hillock, Columbus; J.C. 
Myor. jr.. Cincinnati: W. R. Howe. Dayton; 
IV. C. Fair. Cleveland; J. V. Newton. Toledo; 
R. W. Whitehead, Youngstown, and W. F. 
Kerr, Wooster. 
....A Canadian Order in Council ordains that 
from Nov. 6 all eatUo imported into the Do¬ 
minion from any part of the United States 
must undergo a quarantine of 60 days—re¬ 
striction to extend from ocean to ocean. 
The Natioual Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, 
Composed of delegates from every State and 
Territory iu the Union, commenced tlicir 20tli 
annual session iu Philadelphia, Thursday. 
The meetings are secret and will continue 
about eight days.Tho annual convention 
of the National Butter, Cheese and Egg Asso¬ 
ciation began iu Chicago the same day. About 
COO leading dairymen of the Eastern and Cen¬ 
tral States are in attendance. 
Mr. Wilson's Neuralgia nn<l Headache. 
Mr. Edward L. Wilson, of No. 1125 Chest¬ 
nut st,, Philadelphia. Pa., was photographer to 
the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, and 
also to the recent International Cotton Exhi¬ 
bition at New Orleans. He is also widely 
known ns a lecturer on Egypt, Sinai, and Pales¬ 
tine. which countries he illustrates to his 
audiences by photographic view’s taken by 
himself iu 1882. He writes ns follows: 
“I wns several ycarsagoso run down in phy¬ 
sical condition that the insurance men would 
not take a risk on my life. I became so pros¬ 
trated that I could not sleep more than an houj 
or two iu the course of a night, I suffered 
with acute neuralgia, an 1 with headache, 
which, when they came on suddenly, would 
render me powerless to think or act. I con¬ 
sulted Drs. Starkey L’alcn, and concluded 
to give their Treatment a thorough trial. In 
less than a month I began to feel a greatebange 
and it was not tony until it was as good as 
new. 1 have since engaged in my old duties 
with more than my former activity, and my 
work seldom tires me.” 
A monograph on neuralgia, published by 
Drs. Starkey & Pai.en (whose Compound 
Oxygen Treatment has been so successful that 
they have received hundreds of letters from 
patients who report cures of neuralgia and 
headache), will be furnished free to all who 
ask it by mail or personally at Micirnew offices 
No. 1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia.— Adv. 
The Mark Lane Express, in its review of the 
British grain trade during the jjnst week, says: 
Deliveries of wheat are rest ricted. The provin¬ 
cial markets are very sparingly supplied. Quo¬ 
tations are firm. The sales of Euglish wheat 
during tlic week were 19,325 quarters at 30s 8d, 
against 09,431 quarters at 31s Id during the 
corresponding period last. year. The Loudon 
wheat trade is slow and values are uuehanged. 
Thu supplies or American wheat have largely 
Increased excelling all precedent. The stocks 
of flour ai’e heavy. Corn is scarce aud three 
to six cents higher. 
The report of the Department of 'Agricul- 
